Exo 34:12-14 | NASB2020 | STEP | Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going , or it will become a snare in your midst .

d Deut 16:21; Judg 6:25, 26; 2 Kin 18:4; 2 Chr 34:3f

Exodus 34:12-14

12 ^aBe careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. 13 ^bBut rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their ^{▼▼I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
,} ^dAsherim 14 --for ^eyou shall not worship any other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God--